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The Suda in discussing Athena's epithet "Pallas" suggests a possible derivation "from brandishing (pallein) the spear". [6] The geographer Pausanias reports that Pellene, a city in Achaea, was claimed by its inhabitants to be named after Pallas, while the Argives claimed it was named for the Argive Pellen. [7]
Pallas Athena had a special love for him. He was the one who'd made well-balanced ships for Paris at the start of all the trouble, bringing disaster on the Trojans and on Paris, too, for he was ignorant of what gods had decreed. Meriones went after Phereclus as he ran off, hurled his spear straight into his right buttock.
This is a list of types of spears found worldwide throughout history. Used equally in melee and thrown. Migration Period spear; Normally melee. ...
The old astronomical symbol of Pallas, still used in astrology, is a spear or lance, , one of the symbols of the goddess. The blade was most often a lozenge ( ), but various graphic variants were published, including an acute/elliptic leaf shape , a cordate leaf shape ( ♤ : ), and a triangle ( ); the last made it effectively the alchemical ...
At the beginning of the fight, Athena got the upper hand, until Pallas took over. Before she could win, Zeus, who was in attendance, fearing to see his own daughter lose, distracted Pallas with the Aegis, which she had once shown interest in. Pallas, stunned in awe, stood still as Athena, expecting her to dodge, impaled her accidentally.
Lanza Longa sometimes also known in Italian as gialda.; [1] modernly known scholarly mostly as lanzalonga, [2] [3] the term was also, normally, translated in Tudor period english as Long Spear, was a medieval polearm typical of Italian municipal infantry, a type of spear between 3 and 4.5 meters long [4]
The Athena Promachos was one of the earliest recorded works by Pheidias and was originally a well-known and famous Athenian landmark. [3] According to the Greek traveler and geographer, Pausanias, the top of Athena's helmet as well as the tip of her spear could be seen by sailors and anyone approaching Athens from Attica, at Sounion. [4]
2 Pallas [47] U+26B4 (dec 9908) ⚴ A spear. [47] [55] In modern renditions, the spearhead has a broader or narrower diamond shape. In 1802, it was given a cordate leaf shape. A variation has a triangular head, conflating it with the alchemical symbol for sulfur. [47] 3 Juno [48] [85] U+26B5 (dec 9909) ⚵ a scepter topped with a star [48] [42 ...